This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to the athletic football show.

Today is Tuesday, November 30th.

I'm Robert Mays.

Join me today. It's my good friend Mitchell Schwartz. Mitch, how you doing,th. I'm Robert Mays. Join me today.

It's my good friend Mitchell Schwartz. Mitch, how you doing, buddy? I'm doing good. How are you?

I'm doing very well. Leaving Miami, about to go get on an airplane. So heading back to the cold,

it was a nice little Thanksgiving break. It feels like post Thanksgiving, the season really settles in.

This feels like we've really locked into the

stretch run. So this week is always one that I have circled on my calendar, literally or figuratively

every single year. Well, today is like 62 degrees in Kansas City, and later in the week it gets back

up to 70 again. So it does not feel like fall, and it just doesn't seem like it's the holiday season. I don't mind it. I also don't mind when it's like cold and cool and the weather turns. But it's just been, it's been weird. It's been so warm here. I have a plane to catch. So we're going to get through these fairly quickly. Again, always appreciate you guys sending in your questions. It means a lot. I enjoy doing the show so much every single week. I'm really glad we found a little groove where Mitch can do it with me. So we're going to breeze through as many of these as we can here in the next 45 minutes or so. I want to start kind of a big picture question. Brett Bossie asks, he said, good evening. He's a Patriots fan living in Buffalo. So this is going to be an interesting week. Is this one of those seasons, he asks, where there just isn't a best team in the league? This feels like one of those March Madness tournaments in which two four seeds and an eighth seed make the final four because the one seeds just aren't that much better than everyone else.

Is that the case? In your mind, do you just think this season lacks a couple truly elite teams and that opens up the field for everybody else? As of right now, for sure, because there aren't any.

I mean, everyone that we've, you know, kind of thrown up there is the best team. They seem to have,

you know, a couple stinkers early in the year.

It was just like one or two. But at this point, they all seem to have two or more of them. And no one's really loving Arizona as like the true best team. I think there's still, you know, question marks there and, you know, their quarterback. Why do you think that is? It's just at a point where they have to prove it,

and I'm not sure why they haven't necessarily earned that. I think, well, I know Kingsbury gets a ton of

crap for being a head coach and people don't trust him and his game management and all that stuff.

I wonder if, you know, Kyler is doing such a specific version of NFL quarterbacking that we almost

don't, again, trust that until he's made a deep playoff run. I think the defense is probably underrated.

We just assume that's, you know, an offensive team with the head coach and the quarterback. And,

you know, we're not understanding just how good that defense is and how versatile it is as well.

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